Item 7 - Bound volume containing drafts of the minutes for meetings of the Galway Town Commissioners.

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Bound volume containing drafts of the minutes for meetings of the Galway Town Commissioners. The minute book is a custom printed book which includes structured folios with headings for each meeting. Includes A-Z index. Each folio contains the following printed headings 'Minutes of Proceedings of the Galway Town Improvement Commissioners at their Monthly Meeting held on Thursday...', 'Present', 'No.1 Account', 'No.2 Account', 'Reports of Committees read and disposed of as follows, namely:-', 'The following Special Business came before the Meeting'. In many instances extra pages are attached which contain more information relating to Special Business, in some instances printed material from newspapers is also attached to the minute book. Meeting were usually held on the first Thursday of every month, extra meetings were held periodically. According to entry dated 27 July 1881 'the Galway Town Improvement Commissioners at a special meeting held this day, having heard the application on behalf of the promoters of the Galway, Oughterard, and Clifden steam tramway to construct a line from Galway to Clifden, do hereby Express our approval of said undertaking...' Addition to entry dated 5 January 1882 reads 'A report was read from Mr. Somerville Borough Surveyor in reference to the Claddagh bridge, he submitted two designs for the reconstruction of this bridge, one for an iron lattice girder bridge with Arch plates, the other for a stone bridge of three Arches with about a Span of fifty feet each, he estimated the cost of the former bridge at £1070, and the latter at £771.' Entry dated 26 January 1882 notes the Commissioners support for a resolution passed by Cork Council 'calling upon Government to release Mr. Parnell, Mr. Dillon and other suspects at present imprisoned under the coercion act.' According to entry dated 5 July 1883 'James M. Campbell moved on his notice of motion that a sum of money be borrowed from The Board of Works for the construction of a bridge at the Claddagh', however 'there being no authority to borrow for a work of this nature the motion fell through and it was resolved to take the necessary steps to procure a provisional order for the necessary authority to borrow.' According to entry dated 3 January 1884 the following resolution was unanimously carried 'That the board respectfully request the Lord Lieutenant to withdraw the prohibition for the holding of Fairs and Markets in this locality as the district is quite free from the foot and mouth disease....' Entry dated 27 August 1885 contains details of tenders accepted for road building the municipal area. Each item in the list details the road in question the distance and the price, for example between the canal bridge at the Queen's College and the municipal boundary near bushy park, John Lynskey, 578 perches @ 2/8 half per perch, per annum. Entry dated 3 November 1887 includes the following resolution 'that we the Galway Town Commissioners protest against the savage brutality of the Police, the illegality of the sentence of the recorder of Cork Mr. Hamilton and the villainy of the Tory Government in connection with the arrest and imprisonment of that intrepid and fearless defender of the tenantry and the cause of Ireland William O'Brien M.P....' According to entry dated 26 July 1888 'Tuesday 2 August 1888 being "Race" day the meeting was adjourned to 9th August 1888.'

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